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Josep M. Comellas

@pepcomellas.bsky.social

Politòleg. Public opinion, political behavior, polarization. Postdoc at @dec-gr.bsky.social @uab.cat https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oCNDKhIAAAAJ&hl=es

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📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (3rd March), Luca Bernardi (@lbernardi.bsky.social) from the University of Liverpool will present his work "Public Perceptions of Politicians with Mental Health Problems in the UK"

📍Sala de Juntes

🕐13:00

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26.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis - Marta Kołczyńska, Paul-Christian Bürkner, 2026 Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects ...

Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

05.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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20.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 65    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 0
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¿Aceptan igual la democracia quienes ganan y quienes pierden las elecciones? El aumento de la polarización y de opciones políticas autoritarias podría generar una brecha en el compromiso democrático entre ganadores y perdedores electorales. No obstante, datos de elecciones rec...

📝Escriben en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social @sergiferrer.bsky.social Enrique Prada y @ehernandez.bsky.social sobre su investigación publicada en @cpsjournal.bsky.social. ¿Aceptan igual la democracia los ganadores y perdedores de elecciones?
www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

18.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Sin médico, sin escuela, sin autopista, así surge el resentimiento rural Las "opciones políticas antisistema, populistas y de derecha radical" suelen recibir "más apoyos" electorales en "entornos rurales", observa el investigador Rubén García del Horno. Tratando de buscar ...

📝Artículo de @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social en @agendapublica.es que recoge los resultados de su investigación sobre el resentimiento rural.

agendapublica.es/noticia/2068...

18.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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🏛️ IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory

📢 Call for Abstracts
📍 University of Girona (UdG) @univgirona.bsky.social
🗓 11 June 2026

📚 Identity, self determination, justice, crisis, solidarity, equality, freedom, protest, conflict, war...

⏳ Deadline to submit an abstract: 31 March 2026

17.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat

New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!

Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?

With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.

We find: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...

16.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 106    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 5

📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (17th February) @rdassonneville.bsky.social (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) will present "Rural Sympathy rather than In- and Out-Group
Dynamics: How Voters Respond to Place-Based" co-authored with Richard Nadeau.

📍Sala de Juntes

🕐13:00

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13.02.2026 11:23 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Last night I could not sleep so I created a taxonomy of people who work on inequality/redistribution. For each of these groups I have names of economists but it could be too controversial. So I decided to stay with the taxonomy only. (You can fill in the names.)

12.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 30    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 4

🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB)
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social

🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️

👏🏻 Well deserved!

11.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉

📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

06.02.2026 09:12 — 👍 66    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 0
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El científico Me-Lo I Nvent O y los números primos de las embarazadas: un matemático expone la estafa de las revistas depredadoras El español Pascual Diago ha publicado un delirante estudio para denunciar la invasión de editoriales fraudulentas en la ciencia

🧑‍🏫 "El fraude no es un accidente, sino un subproducto lógico de cómo evaluamos y comunicamos la investigación en un sistema papercentrista absurdo en el siglo XXI."

elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

05.02.2026 08:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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📣 Estem a punt d'enviar la nostra primera newsletter 🎉

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👉 Subscriu-t’hi: tuit.cat/mVnFa

@politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesuab.bsky.social @ibei.org

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05.02.2026 08:09 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !

It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 50    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 1
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

🎉 We're excited to share that "Winners’ Restraint or Affective Majoritarianism? Elections, Polarization and Political Support," co-authored with @sergiferrer.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and @ehernandez.bsky.social, is now published in CPS! You can access it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

29.01.2026 16:38 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 3
Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-feminism in Spain | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-feminism in Spain - Volume 21 Issue 4

Do not miss our article published at @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Using content analysis and survey data, we show how generalist influencers in consumer markets produce anti-feminist content and how it can shape, reinforce, or shift public attitudes toward feminism

24.01.2026 12:51 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Las interrupciones en el empleo de las mujeres persisten pese a la equiparación de las bajas paternales con las maternales Solo las madres que ganan lo mismo que sus parejas se benefician de la mayor implicación de los hombres en el cuidado de los hijos

📢 Nuevo artículo en @elpais.com que recoge el artículo publicado por @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social y @pedromaaa.bsky.social

elpais.com/economia/202...

07.01.2026 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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📢 Big news: After decades at the Ohio State University, CNEP is now based @upf.edu with big changes:

👥New Principal Investigators @marianotorcal.bsky.social (UPF) and Robert Mattes (Strathclyde University)

🎯 Renewed Research Focus

🌐 New Website

📊 Methodological Innovations

www.upf.edu/web/cnep

23.01.2026 08:00 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

22.01.2026 10:58 — 👍 114    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 4
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Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting - Political Behavior For nearly as long as the rational voting paradox has puzzled scholars, it has been recognized that voters’ decisions are influenced by expressive motivations. Yet, since disentangling emotional from ...

Il paper più amato

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

19.11.2025 06:35 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Interview: On polarisation hype (Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This interview is based on Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas’s article, “A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation.” (2025)

📣New interview📣

'Processes of democratic erosion started decades ago under neoliberalism, well before the current widespread concerns about polarisation.'

@juanroch.bsky.social and @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social critique the polarisation hype.

reacpol.net/polarisation...

14.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

How does affective polarization shape political participation? Maruša Lubej, Martin Dolezal & Andrej Kirbiš's examine how emotional divides between political groups impact voting, protests & other participation. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/DmqU7dZ

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

13.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Polèmica al CEO: opacitat en el procés d'estimació de vots i escons La supressió del codi obert genera crítiques per falta de transparència en les estimacions

Això és greu. La comunitat politològica catalana estava orgullosa d'un CEO que s'adheria a estàndards moderns i de transparència. Dir "les estimacions es fan sense codi" crea la idea que la cuina (pública) és ciència infusa i no un procediment reproduïble i auditable (1/2) elmon.cat/politica/opa...

12.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

📢 First seminar of the year : Tomorrow (Jan 13) @javierpadilla.bsky.social (CUNY) will present “When Authoritarians Embrace Democracy :The Hidden Hand of Pre-Existing Oligarchies in Brazil’s Transition”

🕐 13:00

📍Sala de Juntes @politiquesuab.bsky.social

Join us!

12.01.2026 09:10 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨New article🥳

➡️ The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies, published at @psrjournal.bsky.social co-authored with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @celiaestruch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/n)

30.12.2025 08:52 — 👍 33    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1
The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts: A Revised Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift - Marta Vallvé, 2025 In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to s...

New publication! I wrote a conceptual paper reflecting on how to study the material roots of socio-ecological conflicts using a metabolic rift approach. This is the story of how this paper came to be 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0486...

30.12.2025 11:38 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

📰 Escribimos en @agendapublica.es sobre los efectos de la equiparación del permiso del permiso de paternidad sobre la penalización por maternidad.

“La ampliación del permiso funciona especialmente bien en hogares donde ya existía una cierta igualdad previa”

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agendapublica.es/noticia/2048...

22.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
Ajudant de recerca pel projecte “Multilevel intra-party” del grup de recerca GADE (temporal) Endalia Web Portal de selección

Vols entendre com el federalisme canvia els partits polítics per dins? 🏛️🔎

Amb @javiermcanto busquem Research Assistant pel projecte "Multilevel intra-party".

Si t'interessen els partits polítics i la recerca, t'estem buscant! 🚀

👇 Tota la info: selection.uoc.edu/web/offersjo...

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19.12.2025 08:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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☀️Good morning from @cpoliticaub.bsky.social

A new edition of the PhD Workshop on Empirical Political Science has kicked off 🎉

📢 Papers from @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social & @politiquesuab.bsky.social

Check out the programme 👉🏻 share.google/5cmM69EIjk2B...

18.12.2025 08:49 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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Barcelona PhD Workshop Who is it for?

🗓️ La XIII edició del Workshop on Empirical Poli. Sci. és aquest dijous!

📢 Quatre doctorands/es de la UB, UPF i UAB presentaran la seva recerca

📍UB, Nou edifici, Planta 4, Aula Maria Soteras

Consulta el programa 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/barcelo...

Esperem veure't a @cpoliticaub.bsky.social🎉

15.12.2025 15:08 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1